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Author: Chabal2

Jul 8th 2013 at 3:57:42 PM

* Inverted in Warhammer40K: one of the core tenets of the [[AveMachina Cult of the Machine]] is that all scientific knowledge was once available to Mankind but but was lost over millenia, and it is their mission in the universe to gather as much of that knowledge (mostly in the form Standard Template Constructs, a kind of computer blueprint for a given object/vehicle/weapon/etc. that can be built with whatever materials are at hand). While some minor modifications are allowed if circumstances demand it, outright inventing something is heresy to them. By contrast, the Dark Mechanicus is devoted to Chaos, and is always coming up with new and innovative flame-spewing vehicular monstrosities.
** Ork Meks are somewhat similar, in that their innate knowledge of mechanical principles is genetic, so they all produce more or less the same vehicles, but with the proper ressources a mek can create some truly fear-inspiring contraptions.
** Also inverted by servants of Slaanesh. Being SenseFreaks, they get off not only on RapePillageAndBurn, but also through creating art, music...